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cheers from the delegates. This even
ing Mr.. Gladstone, while driving to the
ENTHUsIAsTICALI.Y GREErEn.

ENTHUSIASTICALLY GREETED.
by the throngs that lined the route. On
arriving at the rink he received an Ova-
ton from an assemblage of 5000 per-
sons. In speech he said he would
bodily sweep away the law of entail.
he strongly condemned the revival of
the phantasy of protection. He urged
the extension of local government in the
direction of decentralization, but said
that these, together with the questions
OF liquor traffic and diseStabliShment of
the church in Scotland and Wales.
could not be touched until a sound ad-
JuStment had been effectedin regard to
Ireland.
Continuing, Mr.. Gladstone said it was
sometimes thought that he should go
further and bind himself, and, as far as
he could, his friends (who perhaps
would decline to be SO bound) in deter
mining the precise manner in which all
the principal enactments in his future
bill for the government of Ireland
should be framed. He was not prepared
and did not intend to so bind himself.
lCheers. He had endeavored to give
clear and Ineligible indications,
AS AN HONEST MAN SHOULD
and he was constrained to act within
their letter and spirit. He had said re-
garding many important subjects, the
difficulties connected with which would
not allow the making of any proposals.
that he would not be party to making
any personal opinion impede the settle
ment OF great question, provided that
settlement was compassed with the
conditions originally laid down and was
not fraud upon the people, and pro-
v1ded that ireland accepted it. (Cheers.)
Without lreland's acceptance who
would be fool enough to dis
turb the present conditions? Pro-
yided the settlement does moth
ing to IMPAIR. but rather to
strengthen and consolidate the unity of
the EMPIRE" continued Mr.. Gladstone,
''and provided no just claim of the mi
nority be neglected, think it is wide
pledge and the strongest pledge posi-
ble-that give in saying that in re-
gard to the retention of Irish members
at Westminster, the use of imperial
credit iE the purchase of Irish land. the
delegation, instead of the surrender of
power to an Irish parliament (and here
let me interject the assertion that no
power ever was surrendered, and that
there never was any proposal but to
delegate power, and in regard to the
mode of action by which and the par
tcular time when system that is un-
English and anti-natiOnal in spirit is to
be changed for system that is Irish
and National in spirit-to all
of these proposals the decla-
ration have made appliedr
And, rely upon it, you will find that
neither or any infrmities of mine will
upon those points stand in the way of
the settlement desired by the two coun-
tries" [Cheers.] Referring to the de-
sire of the country that the imperial
parliament retain ultimate power to ar
rest injustice, Mr.. Gladstone said that
such power must be retained, but be-
cause he knew that the misuse of such
power would mar the settlement, he de-
youtly hoped and prayed that it would
never be, used in the wantonness of
tyrannical strength. TO Irishmen
jealous of the retention of this power
his only advice would be to trust in the
magnanimity of the British nation and
their represent atives.